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01/05/2020 – McMann – HBO’s 2020 Annual Golden Globe Awards After Party – Arrivals – Circa 55 Restaurant at The Beverly Hilton, 9876 Wilshire Boulevard – Beverly Hills, CA, USA – Photo Credit: / PRPhotos.com
Birth Name: Kennedy Paige McMann
Place of Birth: Holland, Michigan, U.S.
Date of Birth: October 30, 1996
Ethnicity: * father – English, French-Canadian, Scottish, German, Irish, distant Welsh * mother – Dutch
Kennedy McMann is an American actress. She starred as Nancy Drew on the show of the same name (2019-2023). She also appeared on the show Tell Me Lies .
She is the daughter of young adult author Lisa McMann and writer and musician Matt McMann. Her brother is artist Kilian McMann. Her mother is from Holland, Michigan, a town with a heavily Dutch-American population.
Kennedy is married to Sam McInerney.
Kennedy’s paternal grandfather is Ronald Keith McMann (the son of Earl Ronald McMann and Virginia Margaret White). Ronald was born in Michigan, and had deep roots in the U.S. Earl was the son of Robert Taylor McMann and Minnie Etta Daughherty. Virginia was the daughter of Harry Albert White and Grace Elizabeth Pickerel.
Kennedy’s paternal gradmother is Nellie Delores Fobar (the daughter of Leon Bernard Fobar and Ruth Huldah Douglas). Leon was the son of Canadian parents, Frank Samuel Fobar, who was French-Canadian, and Anna Myrtle McGinnis. Ruth was the daughter of Frank Thomas Douglas and Gertrude Jerrine Serrin, and had deep American roots.
Kennedy’s maternal grandfather was Morris George Gort (the son of Henry Gort and Marie Waterway). Morris was born in Drenthe, Michigan. Henry was the son of Geert “George” Gort, a Dutch emigrant, from Drenthe, and of Leentje Van Der Stad, whose parents were also Dutch. Marie was the daughter of Henry Waterway and Grace Bredeweg, who were born in Holland, Michigan, both of them to Dutch emigrants, from Gelderland. The name Waterway was changed from van de Waterweg.
Kennedy’s maternal grandmother is Glenda Alvina Bouwer (the daughter of Geert “George” Bouwer and Harmtien “Hermina” Lambers). Glenda was born in Michigan, to emigrants from Osterwald, a German town in Lower Saxony, near the border with the Netherlands. She was of at least mostly ethnic Dutch descent. Hermina was the daughter of Albert Lambers and Gese Hensen.
Source: Obituary of Kennedy’s maternal grandfather, Morris George Gort – https://www.legacy.com